Are you interested in shifting your organization or practice more to be more inclusive of queer, trans, non-binary, and genderqueer communities?
Do you have questions about herbalism, full spectrum doula / companion care, health justice, sexual health, gender, intersectionality, trauma-informed care practices, microaggressions and / or survivor-centered advocacy?
As a seasoned advocate, educator, facilitator, & trainer, I am here to help!
Do you have questions about herbalism, full spectrum doula / companion care, health justice, sexual health, gender, intersectionality, trauma-informed care practices, microaggressions and / or survivor-centered advocacy?
As a seasoned advocate, educator, facilitator, & trainer, I am here to help!
I have extensive professional experience offering trainings, education, & consultations to individuals, community organizations, non-profits, businesses, and governmental agencies. I have 13 years of direct advocacy experience working with folks accessing abortion care as well as survivors of sexual & intimate partner violence, including 7 years of program coordination and advocate / advocacy services supervision.
Sliding Scale Fee for Individual Consultations:
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Survivor-Centered AdvocacyMy anti-violence advocacy apporach is informed by the 11 years I spent working directly with survivors of violence & trauma as well as the activism & scholarship of transgender/gender non-conforming, femmes, people of color, abolitionists, & intersectional feminists inlcuding but not limited to Audre Lorde, Assata Shakur, Dean Spade, Sylvia Rivera, Angela Davis, Yasmin Nair, Reina Gossett, Che Gossett, Amber Rose, & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. I utilize trauma-informed frameworks to draw connections between systems of oppression & their intersections with advocacy, violence, survival, support, & transformational justice. Topics rannge from Best Practices for Working with Trans, Gender Non-conforming, & Queer Survivors to Responding with Compassion: Trauma-Informed Practices for Receiving Sexual Assault Disclosures from Clients.
Gender & IntersectionalityI am an experienced & sought after expert on gender justice & intersectionality. I have experience presenting workshops & trainings to groups ranging in size from 5 to 100, ranging in awareness from never met an LGBTQ person to self-identifying, & ranging in age, race, skin color, &/or country of origin, also ranging from urban to rural settings. Topics offered range from Beginning With Ourselves: Dismantling White Homonormativity to Gender & Sexuality 101.
Past clients include: Family Tree Clinic HIV, STD, & TB Section of the Minnesota Department of Health Alexandra House Ramsey County Sexual Violence Services (SOS) Cornerstone Advocacy Services |
Sexual HealthI have been working in the field of Sexual Health Advocacy, Education, & Wellness since 2006 when I began working as a NARAL Minnesota Campus Organizer at the Universiity of Minnesota Duluth. I spent 3 years co-organzing the H.O.T.D.I.S.H Militia, a grassroots abortion fund in Minnesota's Northland. Additionally, I worked as a Family Planning Health Educator & Abortion Counselor at the Women's Health Center in Duluth, Minnesota in 2010. I've continued my reproductive justice organizing, activism, & direct support as co-founder of the SPIRAL Collective (Supporting People in Reproduction, Abortion, & Loss), a queer / trans / people of color-led, Minneapolis-based full spectrum reproductive support community aiming to provide radical, compassionate care in all pregnancy outcomes and experiences with the intention of empowering bodily autonomy. All of these experiences and opportunities have provided me with a unqiuely multi-faceted perspective & well-curated expertise on a wide variety of sexual health topics ranging from holistic abortion care to intersectional pleasure activism to healing pelvic pain to dismantling white & cisgender supremacy within public health.
MicroaggressionsHaving volunteered, worked, consultated, & trained at a variety of social justice organizations & events, I am well aware of both the micro & the macroaggressions that play out within the non-profit industrial complex & it's capitalist value systems. I am humbled to offer consultations to organizations & individuals attempting to dismantle some of those dominant & ''normative' practices within their organizations, their businesses, their work places, &/or themselves. Topics are uniquely crafted on an as-needed basis.
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